“Iran, the most important democracy in western Asia, is the most developed country in the Middle East with respect to science and technology e.g. nuclear energy and that’s why western countries are trying to stop us since they have already known that Iran doesn’t plan to make a nuclear bomb,” Larijani said in a meeting with cultural council officials of Kerman province on Sunday.
The Head of High Council for Human rights also said that Islam has a universal aspect and does not exclusively belong to Arabs and the strict punishments for criminals considered by Islam actually protect lives of the humankind.
“The most important achievement for the revolution is our civil system which is considered as the brightest democracy in western Asia. Some people used to claim that our system doesn’t let people participate in its formation but, Imam Khomeini reacted to this wisely and now according to our constitution, any decisions made with regard to the system is resulted from people’s votes”, he said.
He also mentioned the meeting held with European delegations in Iran and discussions made on the Shia Imams’ school of thought all of which convey that “we totally agree on talking over the challenges of the revolution and this enables us to make this school known to the world.”
Mentioning the recent unrest in Paris, he said that these incidents aren’t related to terrorism and they are all political and are so loud. Now, if a worker would go on strike in Iran, western countries would immediately relate it to the government and would do their best to broadcast it to the extent through their media.
Our human rights dispute with western countries is related to the question we ask whether the Iranian nation has the right to adjust its civil life based on Islam or not. They say people’s lifestyle should be defined according to human rights instruments issued by the west, while we believe we have the right to choose our lifestyle based on the Islamic thought, Larijani said.
Another area on enmity with Iran is the public purity among men and women which is different from the purity in western countries. Our enemies are working hard on this area so that they could publicize impurity among men and eliminate the innocence among women in our society, the Human Rights Chief added.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a duty to protect the society against impurities. Today, the post modern feminism states that the greatest cruelty against women is to believe that women are similar to men and the interesting point is that this motto matches our Islamic mottoes, he said.